I am really struggling to increase my NSP business. I have a small store and do massage therapy too. The only thing going well is my massage business. I am not selling many herbs and I really don't know why. I am in a medium size town with a high average income. Well-educated people live here and we have three colleges. I don't have a lot of inventory right now because I can't afford it and I can't afford to advertise much either. However, last year I advertised a lot and got no results from it. I did the taped radio commercials from NSP and print ads. NO results. -Debbie Dehm
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Do NSP's Coaching Program! It is great! Call customer services to sign up. -Duane
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I am an Iridologist & Holistic Nutritionist. I work both from my home and in a health food store/clinic. The owner of the clinic had ok sales of NSP until I came in. Sales skyrocketed. Why? Because I know the product line well. People come to see me and I suggest a Nature's Sunshine product(s) for them. To get people into your store, you have to give them a reason to buy NSP. They are the very best and that is what you have to hammer into them. You do massage, but that does not spin off very often into the sales of herbs I bet. Get a practitioner in your store that knows NSP. Get them using the product and then sign them up. The people that know the product is helping them won't resist saving 25% by ordering it themselves. Also, have Sunshine Hours once or twice a month where you talk about different health issues and NSP. Advertise for this. Stay positive! -Mike Zavitz
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I share what I learned about this through experience. When you have a store, inventory is #1. I put every penny that I could in products and took no more out of the business than I had to. I spent too much trying to get people in the store before I had the products I needed to keep them there and keep them coming back. There are many needs in your city. Making wise buying choices with the money available will help you meet more of these needs. Find out what the needs are before you spend money on inventory. Only buy products that you know that you can sell quickly. Offer customers the best prices that you can on these products to get money moving quickly. In our stores, 35% of products account for 85% of the sales. Our stores are now very healthy by us doing the above. Now we can spend money to get more people in our stores. You can do it!

We have had cash flow problems in our businesses. It is a problem that can be overcome. Here is what put us up and over. We found a truth, which is "Everything has a seed within itself". When a farmer needs corn he plants (sows, gives) corn. It comes up, first the blade, then the ear and then the full corn in the ear. We applied this to cash flow problems. We planted money (sowed, gave) into good ground. It produced our harvest in time. It has worked ever time. Our NSP sales just go up for no known reason or a new product comes out and takes off or something like that. The key is finding good ground to sow in. You will know it when you see it. We always sow into prosperous ground. Ground that has no rocks (strife), weeds (back biting),etc. -Fred